SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 19 (UPI) -- A jeweler in California has admitted financing a shipment of computer equipment to Iran in violation of a U.S. embargo, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
Mohammad Ali Mayssami admitted Monday that on Jan. 29, 2003, at the request of his father in Iran, he wrote a $4,000 check to Super Micro Computers in San Jose, Calif., and on Feb. 14 of that year he deposited the check into Super Micro's bank account, the U.S. attorney's office said in a news release.
While Mayssami had no specific knowledge what the money was for, he had reason to believe the company might be selling computer equipment to an intermediary for possible shipment to Iran, the federal prosecutors said.
Mayssami faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 when he is sentenced March 31.
In September 2006, Super Micro pleaded guilty to illegally selling 300 computer motherboards to a Dubai company, knowing they would be sent to Iran, prosecutors said.
